Posts Tagged ‘Health IT’

With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), connected biomedical technology has provided a rich opportunity for healthcare to improve lives and patient outcomes. However, it has also increased fears among IT leaders in hospitals and healthcare facilities that with the proliferation of these IoT medical devices comes some very real threats to protected health information and to financial and patient safety risks, according to a new infographic by Comport Technology Solutions.

The infographic examines how why cyber criminals target healthcare organizations, the most likely types of cyberattack events targeting healthcare and how healthcare IT is focusing security efforts on IoT to mitigate threats.

Not in recent history has the outcome of a U.S. presidential election portended so much for the healthcare industry. Will the Trump administration repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? What will be the fate of MACRA? Will Medicare and Medicaid survive?

These and other uncertainties compound an already daunting landscape that is steering healthcare organizations toward value-based care and alternative payment models and challenging them to up their quality game.

Medical technology, devices, robotics and procedures are moving at an astounding rate, ushering us into an innovative new era of healthcare, according to a new infographic by NaviSite. However, healthcare IT infrastructure, data management, security and access are not keeping pace.

The infographic examines technology use in healthcare, patient expectations and patient privacy and security challenges.

The 2016 Healthcare Benchmarks: Data Analytics and Integration assembles hundreds of metrics on data analytics and integration from hospitals, health plans, physician practices and other responding organizations, charting the impact of data analytics on population health management, health outcomes, utilization and cost.

Technology now has a role in nearly every aspect of a person’s life, including healthcare, according to a new infographic by Minute Women.

The infographic examines how technology is being used in healthcare, global investments in healthcare technology companies and investment categories and the reasons for health technology growth.

Encouraged by early success in coaching 23 patients to wellness at home via remote monitoring, CHRISTUS Health expanded its remote patient monitoring (RPM) enrollment to 170 high-risk, high-cost patients. At that scaling-up juncture, the challenge for CHRISTUS shifted to balancing its mission of keeping patients healthy and in their homes with maintaining revenue streams sufficient to keep its doors open in a largely fee-for-service environment.

All of Maryland’s acute care hospitals use a certified electronic health record (EHR), according to a new infographic by the Maryland Health Care Commission.

The infographic examines the top three EHR vendors in use in Maryland, as well as the use of patient portals, IT for population health management and telehealth and the number of hospitals participating in health information exchanges.

While widespread adoption of electronic health records has generated new streams of actionable patient data, John C. Lincoln has taken data mining to new levels to enhance performance of its accountable care organization (ACO).

The use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is growing in the healthcare industry, according to a new infographic by Neofect. Applications can be used for a variety of medical purposes including: diagnostics and planning, training through simulation, rehabilitation, and can also be used as treatment for depression, autism, phobias, pain management, and addiction.

The infographic looks at the benefits of VR and AR in the healthcare field and what needs to happen to make these technologies more refined and mainstream in healthcare.

Person-centric health management is slowly acknowledging the device-driven lives of patients and health plan members and incorporating these tools into care delivery and management efforts.

Hospitals and integrated health delivery networks (IDNs) are continuing to invest in new technologies that support collaborative care across the continuum, according to 2013-2015 surveys conducted by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Philips Healthcare, depicted in a new infographic by Philips.

The infographic examines the major goals of connected care and how these hospitals and IDNs are looking to cloud-based technology to tackle scalability and cost challenges.

Collaborative Health Systems (CHS), the largest sponsor of Medicare Shared Savings ACOs in the United States, manages 24 ACOs, nine of which generated savings of nearly $27 million in 2014. While data analytics and integration is one of the greatest challenges for most accountable care organizations, the capture, analysis and reporting of data is the key to ACO success in improving quality, reducing costs and generating savings.

To speed their transition to value-based care, healthcare organizations are investing in next generation predictive analytics and data lakes, a powerful data architecture with a unified location for mining and analysis by clinical departments, business analysts and data science teams, according to a new infographic by EMC2.

The infographic looks at where predictive analytics can make a difference and steps to navigate a healthcare data lake.

As quality and value increasingly drive healthcare rewards, the generation, sharing and analysis of patient data is a prerequisite for organizations desiring to enhance clinical outcomes and drive down cost. Yet the burden of creating infrastructure to support health information management deters many payors and providers from fully engaging in a robust business intelligence strategy.

Today’s healthcare consumer demands are driving IT transformation, according to a new infographic by CDW Healthcare.

The infographic examines how patients want to communicate with their physician and new routes of patient education and access to care.

As the healthcare industry’s understanding of the importance of an empowered, engaged patient has increased, Intermountain Healthcare changed its mission statement to reflect the critical role of patients in a value-based healthcare system. “Helping people live the healthiest lives possible” embodies the new environment of shared accountability between patients and providers that is fostered at Intermountain Healthcare.

Digital health has seen more than $3B in investments and a number of multi-billion dollar exits including Veeva Systems and Castlight Health making health IT/digital health one of the hottest areas for investment and acquisition activity, according to CB Insights, reflected in its Periodic Table of Digital Health.

The Periodic Table of Digital Health highlights the 123 key private companies, investors, accelerators, acquirers and more in the health IT/digital health ecosystem.

The future of healthcare technologies, and what they mean for investors and entrepreneurs.

The healthcare technology revolution is just around the corner. And when it arrives, it will change and enrich our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Doctors will perform blood pressure readings via video chat and nutritionists will analyze diet based on photos taken with cell phone cameras. Transforming Health Care: The Financial Impact of Technology, Electronic Tools and Data Mining, combines healthcare, technology, and finance in an innovative new way that explains the future of healthcare and its effects on patient care, exploring the emergence of electronic tools that will transform the medical industry.

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Physician interest in mhealth is strong, according to Deloitte’s 2014 Survey of U.S. Physicians. Access to clinical information is the most cited benefit of health IT by physicians, the survey also found.

A new Deloitte infographic looks at the difference between physician users and non-users of health IT, patient support of health IT and analysis of meaningful use.

The healthcare technology revolution is just around the corner. And when it arrives, it will change and enrich our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Doctors will perform blood pressure readings via video chat and nutritionists will analyze diet based on photos taken with cell phone cameras.

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